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• The past decade has been a golden one for Australian horror, bookended by The Babadook in 2014 and the current sensation Talk to Me.
• The global premiere of Jennifer Kent’s groundbreaking supernatural bogeyman film at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival caused ripples that became a wave.
• Talk to Me’s success story is not just commercial but critical: the film currently has a 94% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Australian New Wave

• Australia’s golden horror decade has roots in the Australian New Wave, a particularly productive period for Australian film from the 1970s to the late 1980s dominated by two key horror subgenres on opposing ends of the taste spectrum.
• The high-brow Australian Gothic includes critically esteemed dramas Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and Walkabout (1971).

Destroying the high/low culture binary

• The horror films of the past decade tend to trample over this high/low genre binary.
• These films experiment with art cinema aesthetics and deploy narrative strategies of prestige drama, echoing the Australian Gothic.
• In Natalie Erika James’ debut feature Relic, a grandmother’s descent into dementia impels the reverberation of spectral traumas across three generations.
• This play with high/low culture boundaries filters into Talk To Me’s play with audience emotions and expectations.

A collective energy

• Our current golden age of horror has grown out of a collective creative energy.
• The Philippou brothers worked on The Babadook as 19-year-olds and credit Kent’s influence as key to their creative approach.
• Jennings and Causeway have been critical to the collective currents that have propelled our golden horror decade.

• New York, May 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The NH Collection New York Madison Avenue hotel has partnered with Perfect Picnic NYC to offer guests an exclusive 'Picnic in the Park Experience', providing hotel guests with an opportunity to enjoy one of the sweetest joys of summer in New York: a deluxe made-to-order picnic in New York City's iconic Central Park.
• Enjoy one of the sweetest joys of summer– a deluxe made-to-order picnic in New York City's iconic Central Park.
• The gourmet picnics have been specially designed for the hotel by Wendy Weston, founder of Perfect Picnic NYC and the unparalleled expert on curating the ultimate picnic.
• "What NH Collection New York Madison Avenue and Perfect Picnic NYC have created is a ready-to-enjoy luxury picnic experience for guests who long for a beautiful, memorable afternoon together as a couple or a family," said Carlos Salomon, General Manager, NH Collection Madison Avenue.

• These platform updates will be presented today at BUILD with Mapbox , a virtual event that also highlights the innovations of ANWB, Nextdoor, OneSoil, PicNic, The World Bank, Toyota Motor North America, and Varicent.
• "BUILD with Mapbox is about sharing new products with our customers through the lens of real-world deployments.
• I am pleased to share insights with the BUILD with Mapbox audience on how we deliver enhanced customer experiences utilizing technology through location data and connected services."
• I am excited to attend BUILD with Mapbox and explore how Nextdoor can continue to push the boundaries of bringing neighbors and businesses together."

• The factory-assembled kitchens use the latest in energy-saving modular construction techniques and allow operators to customize based on their needs.
• Combining the quickly built modular kitchens with the Picnic Pizza Station, a new restaurant can be opened 50% faster than before.
• The ContekPro factory-built kitchens offer a modular, turnkey, fast-to-deploy, cost-efficient, and sustainable alternative to traditional brick and mortar kitchens.
• ContekPro has manufactured and deployed over 150 modular kitchens and support units throughout the US, the Caribbean, and Africa.